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A photo of two painted miniatures, on the left is a regular human-scale skeletal warrior, but standing next to him is the positively huge Kosargi Night Guard. He's a hulking brute that's close to twice the height of the skeleton, with rotting green skin and wearing a torn-up knee-length burgundy cloak and a Mongolian-style fur hat. He's got a big long grey beard and is holding an absolutely massive axe that itself is longer than the skeleton is tall. The base looks like mud with gross green swampy water in some of the hollows, and some swampy grass tufts scattered about.

Next in the seemingly never-ending flood of painting, we have a Kosargi Night Guard! He was surprisingly quick to paint since there's not too many little details, but I think my favourite part is the basing. Rather than trying to create a spot for a pool of swamp water, I just loaded up the base with the muddy ground texture as normal, painted it, and then carefully put the swamp water in the hollows where water would naturally collect anyway. (The skeleton warrior next to him is the one from a couple of weeks ago and is there for scale since there wasn't any other way to really show how large the Kosargi is!)

Posted on 2 August 2023, 20:46

A photo of two packs of "Gamers Grass" grass tufts, one is a really dark red colour and the other is icy blue. There's also two tubs of basing material, one called "Neutral Texture for Rough Terrain" and the other one "Moss Texture".

I'm taking the opportunity with my Warhammer Quest miniatures to expand my collection of basing materials. 😁 The plan for the boss hostiles in particular is to use the Rough Terrain texture with a really dark grey colour over it then put those Blood Moon grasses on them. Should look pretty fantastic I reckon.

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Posted on 2 August 2023, 14:00

A photo of three hunched-over rotting zombies. They've got the usual decaying clothes, but all three have part of the lids of the coffins they were in on their backs, which are attached to them by way of stakes driven through the top of the lid and through their chests. They also have tree roots growing through their bodies.

Each one has a different thing on top of their coffin lid alongside a mound of dirt: the first has a gravestone and candles plus a tree stump, the second has a wooden memorial-looking thing plus tree stump and a crow holding what looks like someone's innards, and the third has part of a metal fence with a skull on the top and roses on it. The bases are all done up to look like fresh wet mud.

More hostiles join the ranks! This time, the first three Deadwalker Zombies. Pretty delighted at how revolting they are, haha.

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Posted on 29 July 2023, 16:05

A photo of painted four miniatures. Two are skeletons that have been clearly executed by hanging from fairly hastily-erected gallows but somewhat creepily they both have one arm up and are pointing at something. The bases look like dirt and have some greeny/brown grass tufts on them. The other two are crows that are standing on top of a ruined column, with a key hanging from their beaks. The bases of these look like some sort of yellow stone and have very dry-looking grass tufts on them.

Also finished tonight are the "mysterious object" markers. I used AK Interactive's "Neutral Earth" texture paint and just put a coat of Ratling Grime on it for the skeletons and Aggaros Dunes for the crows, and they came out looking vastly different despite being the same texture! (And I couldn't resist using some more of my tufts as well.)

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Posted on 25 July 2023, 21:53

A photo of four painted miniatures:
- A vampire hunter with the standard pointy hat and cool dark brown leather cloak holding a shotgun-looking thing, and with many wooden stakes about his person.
- A heavily-armoured warrior woman with white hair holding a large sword in front of her, with the head of a gryphon draped over her shoulders.
- A dwarf with steampunk-looking armour holding an axe and a steampunk-looking gun.
- A priest in long deep rich red robes with a black hood on and a big elaborate, uh... metallic thing on her back that a bunch of strips of fabric are hanging from. She holding a staff and has her hand out like she's about to cast a spell.

Next in my Warhammer Quest painting adventures, the first four heroes! I decided to paint the bases of these VERY differently from the hostiles so they're much more easily distinguishable when on the board. It doesn't really show through very well in this photo but I added the snow sparkle texture paint on top of the snow and it looks so good.

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Posted on 25 July 2023, 19:57

A photo of a white non-binary person with black hair and white headphones on, holding a paintbrush and intently looking at the miniature they're painting. They're sitting at my painting table which has a wooden arch with LED strip lighting in the middle, and two levels of storage for my many many paint pots.

And now they asked if they could paint a miniature! I have a ton of primed-but-not-painted miniatures overall but not really that many _spare_ ones as such, but they decided they liked the look of the Tyranid Warriors. I only have three which is exactly what I need for a fireteam in Kill Team, but realistically I’m not going to get around to painting them any time soon, so eh, it's for a good cause.

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Posted on 22 July 2023, 20:38

A photo of ten miniatures from Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. We have three skeleton warriors with flowing red cloaks and battered and rusty looking armour, three bases of swarms of corpse rats all running over each other (some of them have their skulls visible and others have bits of innards visible), three bases of bat swarms (one is a dire bat and is huge and has a bloody mouth), and lastly the pièce de résistance of this group, a feral vampire with pale skin who's crouched on top of a ruined column. He's got a sword held out behind him like he's just sliced something in half, and the blood along the blade lends credence to that theory. His mouth is covered with blood as is the other hand that's on top of the column.

All of the bases are painted to look like they're in wet mud, and the dire bat and vampire both have pools of green swampy water as well.

That's the first batch of hostiles done! This is probably the fastest I've painted things for ages, but they came out looking pretty excellent nonetheless. Especially happy with the gross blood effects on the vampire in particular. 😁

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Posted on 13 July 2023, 22:22

A photo of three individual bases of rat swarms all piling over each other, some have no skin on their faces and it's just skull and others have their insides visible. Behind them is another base with two large bats and several smaller bats mid-flight over a ruined stone column.

My first batch of Warhammer Quest miniatures are (mostly) done! I figured rather than getting utterly overwhelmed at how many miniatures I have to paint, I'd take just the ones, both heroes and hostiles, that I used for the first game I played the other night and get those done first, and then just specifically choose those encounter cards for the first game we play. I'm making excellent use of zenithal highlighting, Contrast paints, and drybrushing to get them done quickly since the hostiles really don't need to be done to crazy quality (the heroes will be done to a higher standard). The bases aren't done because I'm going to get them finished all at the same time once the rest of the miniatures are painted.

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Posted on 8 July 2023, 22:24

A photo of all sixty assembled but unpainted Warhammer Quest miniatures sitting on my painting table. See the previous posts in this thread for individual descriptions.

Man, that really is just a boatload of miniatures when you put them all together.

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Posted on 2 July 2023, 22:09

A photo of a BUNCH of assembled but unpainted miniatures in grey plastic. There are:

- 10 skeleton warriors in decaying armour.
- 10 zombies that are all hunched over and have gravestones and dirt on their backs like they've just risen from their graves.
- 6 individual bases that each have a horde of little rats on them, all running on top of each other in a wave.
- 6 bat swarms.
- 2 skeletons hanging from gallows.
- 2 squat little gargoyle things.
- 2 ravens perched atop ruined columns.
- 2 alarmingly large rats that upon closer inspection are rotting and you can see their rib cages.

And lastly, the horde has been assembled! I'm definitely not going to be getting into the woods with the details on these when I paint them though... I think I'll do my standard zenithal highlight and then some Contrast paints and a bit of a drybrush and call it done.

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Posted on 2 July 2023, 21:48